While we like to pooh pooh at the theoreticians, there are some remarkable results proven just through thought experiments and math, which are only confirmed an

While we like to pooh pooh at the theoreticians, there are some remarkable results proven just through thought experiments and math, which are only confirmed and used many, many years later. People would not even think to look into such things if theoreticians did not come up with the original abstract proof. For example, there are more combinations of characters for text messages of this length than there are particles in the entire history of all possible multiverses. Clearly I need to use something beside blind trial and error to write a halfway coherent HN comment. Instead I must rely on a little mental theorizing to even just rant on the internet.